App broken if doctrine/doctrine-bundle is installed without doctrine/orm

[fbourigault]

When you require the doctrine/doctrine-bundle package but not the doctrine/orm one you get the following exception:

[LogicException]
  To configure the ORM layer, you must first install the doctrine/orm package.

This is because the https://github.com/symfony/recipes/blob/master/doctrine/doctrine-bundle/1.6/config/packages/doctrine.yaml#L4-L14 file is configuring the ORM which may be not installed.

I know this is not so easy as those configuration can't be moved in the doctrine/orm package as installing this one without the bundle would also break the application.

[aik099]

You can install orm-pack for now.

[fabpot]

Unfortunately, nothing we can do IMHO. We could remove the default orm configuration, but that's not what people would want most of the time. So, the best option is to be sure to document using the orm-pack instead of installing the bundle only.

[dimkir]

I wonder, if the documentation on DBAL usage https://symfony.com/doc/current/doctrine/dbal.html which recommends installing doctrine/doctrine-bundle needs to be changed to recommend installing of the orm-pack ?

[erikbaan]

this is still an issue with the documentation.

[javiereguiluz]

@erikbaan see symfony/symfony-docs#10127

[ryanotella]

Removing the doctrine.orm block in config/packages/doctrine.yaml resolves this, if you aren't wanting to install the ORM.